Thread 4979250

Sunny and Gizmo are starting to feed themselves and practicing wing flapping, probably only a few weeks left before they're fully grown enough to start proper flying

https://www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nfGcuE
https://www.youtube.com/live/LCGYWfbyBWc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gx7VP85Gwp1jhHRilStcZMrnUPszHQ0-w1czkjnf9bc/preview?tab=t.0

Bird chicks grow so rapidly that it's hard to believe. I only took a look at the stream every now and then while 4chan was down. If I missed a couple of days, they looked like some entirely different birds.
I'm happy the eaglets are not so tiny and fragile anymore. Things are looking good for them.

Still, what was with the previous thread? It ended with a mod message:
https://desuarchive.org/an/thread/4967719/#4979091
Is this thread okay to stay here, or is it gonna end up moved too?

where was it actually moved to? How the Hell does this thread not meet all 2 of the /an/ board rules? That's weird

It's hard to tell them apart now, the corner of their mouth seems like a good way.

>>4979292
seems like they just happened to use it for testing, unlucky

>>4979292
>>4979353
Happened on quite a few boards, for a short time anyone could move a thread with the right tricks.

Rain and 2 inches of snow coming.

>>4979514
Oh no, I don'twant the Cookie thing to happen again :(

>>4979526
I think they're gonna be fine. Their feathers have grown and they don't need mom to keep them warm anymore.

>>4979526
they're fine, they have their full outer layer of water proof feathers now

Good Morning eagles

Look at me, I'm flying!

There are some interesting stories if you go down the eagle cam rabbit hole
>Eagle lost 2 out of 3 chicks
>Male has an other family
>He keeps stealing the food the female brings to the nest and gives it to his other family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWhRtxghhoo

>>4979934
Soon

Checking out nest edges.

Everyone is here

https://people.com/viral-eaglets-die-after-storm-blows-nest-away-11723513
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/eaglets-killed-windstorm-west-virginia-bald-eagles
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I know the eagles this thread is about aren't these eagles but I saw these headlines and it reminded me of the thread.

>>4980505
This is awful. There us footage of the nest being blown off.

any good eagle news?

>>4980716
I'm sorry. I wouldn't have posted it if I knew there was footage. I only saw the headlines, I didn't read either of them.

>>4980845
faggot

>>4980505
The male eagle of that pair is cursed. Last year he inexplicably ate his own chicks.

>>4980844
This family:
>>4980505
Is working on their second nest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utdXjmuTg5Q

Trempealeau nest
Mr. T keeps stealing food from Mrs. T's nest to feed his second family:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaGPMBaL-dg

Big Bear eagles: Thriving, the chicks working on their flight muscles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLSqnqYmMHk

>>4980860
Oh shit I didn't knew it was this male

>>4980864
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KQAPF7NuKs&t=355s

>>4980860
>>4980868
That's messed up. From what I'm reading, the theory seems to be that he was young and inexperienced, and something confused him into seeing his own chicks as prey? And now this year, he was doing everything right but their entire nest fell off the tree? Damn

I think Gizmo is female and Sunny is male

>>4981358
it's impossible to tell just by looking at them at this point, the dimorphism doesn't become that apparent until they're fully adults

A tiny chikadee(?) came to the nest to steal fluff :)

Jackie got a cottontail rabbit

>go outside, it's rainy and cold again
>check nest cam, see this

it's been a crazy spring

>both parents pull their weight
>male brings lots of food when female broods
>stocking up and building on the nest before bad weather
>male even intervened in a case when chicks fought
>chicks are very friendly towards each other

peak eagle family

Damn, I missed these threads after 4chan went down. Holy shit, they're full grown chickens now.

Fledging: soon
>Fledge watch begins 5/13!

Good morning, eaglemaniacs.

Sunny actually perched on a branch outside the nest this morning, which I believe is the first time either chick has done that, that's apparently the last step before they actually fledge

>>4984874
I'm gonna mis that adorable nigga like you wouldn't believe

Are there any educated guesses on the eaglets genders yet?

>>4985690
can't tell without getting really invasive, the dimorphism doesn't really show up until their fully grown after a few years

>>4985690
they/them

One of the parents got shat on.

>>4985771
Looks like they're at their rebellious stage.

Any day now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVhNCTH8pDs

I had a dream that Sunny flew away and I missed the moment

>>4988166
>>4988444
starting to think they might be on to us

>>4988510
One of the moderator said Spirit was looking at her reflection in the camera lens.

You guys still believe God a third chick could've survived?

>>4989190
They could have raised 3 chicks by their ability imo, but the chick who died was very dominant and aggressive so I can't say if Gizmo would have survived if they were still around.

Hello fellow avian enthusiasts.
Pls vote birb in the /an/lympics

>>4989190
possibly but unlikely, Gizmo would have had a lot of issues getting enough food with two older, larger, and more food dominant siblings and the nest would be a lot more crowded and stressful with three of them. They did a survey in Virginia a while ago and only 14% of the nests watched(76 out of 557), had three chicks fledge. It was more common for nest to have no chicks make it to fledge than three. I mean even if they did all make it the nest is already crowded with just two of them imagine three of them that size trying to do wingers and jump around
https://ccbbirds.org/2010/02/13/just-how-common-are-3-eagles-eggs/

>>4989189
They look so cool

Reminder that congress intends to remove protection to their nest area and open areas like this to logging.

>>4989573
bald eagles are unironically overpopulated and fill a niche as a rural scavenger. we call them dump chickens up north.

>>4989573
Does it mean I can an eagle?

>>4989573
even if they do do something like that and look to do it in Big Bear Valley(which by the way is in the San Bernardino National Forest where logging is already permitted) it would still be illegal to cut down a tree with a Bald Eagle nest in it or to disturb the immediate area around it because of 16 U.S.C. 668-668d, aka the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act

>Gizmo is likely female
that was my prediction too

>>4990624
kek, great edit

>>4990624
saved

>>4979250 (OP)
they're still not out of the nest? lazy bums

we might learn Sunny's gender soon

>>4989589
you can an hero instead

Seriously, why do they like to poop on their parents?

ah no breakfast yet for eaglets today. it's time they got their own food!

Just had a visit from one of the flying squirrels, around 20:52 on the left hand side.

since they have had such a nurturing environment and strong examples from their parents the eaglets look very bonded to each other and confident. they may fledge on the same day, but this is just a theory.

Haven't been following the eagles recently as I've been overwhelmed with healt hissues. Any interesting news?

>>4995174
Shadow came out as corvidsexual and left Jackie for the crows. She was depressed for a bit but then got over it and entered into a quasisexual relationship with Fiona. Sunny and Gizmo went full zoomer and became fulltime neets refusing to leave the nest just farting around

>>4992062
>Seriously, why do they like to poop on their parents?
Cause like most teens, shitting on your parents is a part of puberty

IT HAPPENED LIKE 10 MINUTES AGO, SUNNY TOOK OFF!

>>4996468
Yep official time for her first flight is 1046

>>4996468
GODSPEED SUNNY

>>4996468
She's currently hanging out in the roosting tree, cam 2's trained on her.

>>4992062
>clean it up janny

achievement unlocked

sunny chilling on the nest again, looks like she comes back to feed there. I hope they both do that, once they get bigger they still have to find a place to eat

>>4997000
They stick around a few weeks learning to hunt and stuff before flying off to find their own territory

They were all four in the nest today.

nice to see them growing up

Gizmo had a fail fledge/a fludge. He was hopping around that long tree branch and flapping his wings but fell off it. Happened around 8:27 am PST

Giz is currently on a low branch in the Simba tree

>>4998792
https://www.youtube.com/live/DTeWmtuHwRk

Is he going to be okay?

>>4999017
Yes, Jackie fed her

The youngsters are back in the nest together.
Seems like both of them are likely female? As the staff refers to them as sisters.

seems to be a daily routine for the moment that Jackie brings a fish to the nest sometime in the afternoon/evening, both of the kids come back to eat and sleep overnight in the next before flying off in the morning to continue exploring the territory, wonder how long it'll continue before they fly off to find their own territory, will be a said day cause Jackie and Shadow won't use the nest after that until the next egg laying season sometime this winter probably, which means the cameras won't have anything to show, at least it'll give them the chance to finally fix the nest camera's microphone

Did you guys see them hanging together on the tree?

Seems like the young eagles are off to explore the world, they might not come back anymore to the nest

>>5001954
they came back this morning so not quite yet

no nest sighting since yesterday evening, they may not have departed the territory yet but they're definitely building up to it

eagle?

>>5005024
eagle.

How long until some red neck shoots one of them?

aw they are fighting the owls

>>5005267
are they winning?

It's cool how close bonded the sisters are